Making Hash

Is it worth me trying to make any hash with the leaf's and trimmings from the harvest on 2 plants???

Cheers

What kind of volume are we talking about here? Trim from little plants..or trim from huge plants?

I just made some off of two plants. I threw in the trimmings and sucker buds and got a good amount. I had alot of resin on my leaves too. I used bubble bags. Good luck.

without the fans leaves, i get 10% back in hash. 100 grams of buds trimmings and lower fluff buds will yield 10 grams of hash.

wats a cheap way of making hash without all the bags and expensive equipment and will there be trimmings from the bud coz i thought you just used the leaves! do you also make the hash when the leaf's etc are dry and not just affter you harvest?
thanks for your coments.my plants are nearly waist height in there pots.

one way: Dry your leaves. They should be crispy. Find a window screen. Lay out a peice of cardboard/paper that is as large as the screen is or just a bit larger.

Place the leaves on the screen above the cardbord and shake the screen over the cardboard. You should see some yellow/green particles falling through. Take the leaves and gently do a clap your handa motion. Do this 3-4 times..then shake the screen again. Do it a few more times. Keep shaking.

The idea is to gently knock the trichs off...not crush the leaf into powder. When you feel you've knocked off as many as you can (a guess) collect up the leaves...knock off what may be left on the screen...and set the screen aside. Now pick up the cardboard/paper and carefully funnel off the powder into a tupperware, etc. Something you aren't gonna spill!

Set that aside somewhere safe. Find a Pringles can or similar vessel that is deepr than wide..and no larger than about 6".

Now steal a pair of your girlfriend/mom/favorite female's panty hose..or a footsie/sock that is nylon hosiery.

Put the toe of the sock over your hand (no solid toepiece..etc in the hose) and stick your hand into the pringles can.vessel...stretch the outside over the edge so you have an indentation down into the can..and pull you hand out. You want enough space to put about 1/2-3/4 oz of the shake you captured off the window screen to fit in here.

Put the shake in. If it's a pringles can and you have a lid...you can put it on and start to gently shake it. If you have no top..that's ok...take a blunt object that won't rip the hose into the can and start gently...um...jackin it off...up and down...slightly stretching the hose down into the can. Follow?

Do this for about 5 minutes. Don't stretch the hose too far into the can. you want to filter out the the FINE trichs...ALL YELLOW...and NO GREEN.

Take the hose out..dump that weed out on something and save it...and replace it with more shake. Repeat this process until the shake is gone.

Take the hose out..look inside the can...VOILA'...TRICHOMES!

Dump em out on a peice of aluminum foil.

From here you can smoke em straight up..mix em with yer weed..or...slightly heat it and press it into hash.

Kinda ghetto...but if you are patient and take your time you will get a very nice product for no money whatsoever from shit you'd toss.

Idf ya wanna go farther...take the reamaining SHAKE (not trichs)...put it in a mason/pickle jar...and dump 91% isopropyhll alcohol ($2 at Wally's) on it...enough to cover up the weed. SHAKE LIKE HELL FOR 15 SECONDS....then use fine silkscreen (not sure if the panty hose will work) and filter the solids from the liquid..with the liquid ending up in a baking dish. If it turns too green you TOOK TO LONG. The longer the iso is in contact the greener it will TASTE and the less potent it will be. The most potent oil is red like the pic below...not black or green. (black or green still works..it just isn't as tasty/stoney/good)

This can be slowly evaporated over days...or heat can be applied to speed it up. NO FLAMES NO FLAMES NO FLAMES. I don't wan't anyone blowing themselves up!! Use a heating pad or the SUN. MAKE SURE you evap all the alcohol out. In fact, don't plan to smoke it for a few days to be sure.

When the alcohol evapes..there will be a sticky goo. The colder this gets the harder it gets. The warmer it is..the gooeir it is. In the fridge...then scrape..may be the easiest and least mess. You'll have to play with it cus your temps where you are will determine how it looks/acts/how pliable it is.

This is iso/hash oil. You can mix it with your trichs at a 1/3 oil to 2/34 trich mixture and it will BLOW YOUR MIND. (jelly hash)

Now you've use ALL of your plant...not just the bud. Perfect this..and every harvest you have you will have a nice treat to kick yer ass but good.

good luck...and remember...NO FLAMES!

bt dt

How can I make ice hash for less than $5 outlay?

Contributed by: Kunta wears a sarong

Cost? - if the ice cubes are free then it should not cost any more than a few bucks for the small scrap of mesh needed to separate the water and resin heads from the vegetative matter, I told you it was low cost!

You will need:


Electric mixer (or 2 x tireless arms)
Refrigerator (or if you are in the bush, substitute the refrigerator with a bucket of take-away ice and water)
Ice cubes
Glass bowl
Soup ladle
Teaspoon

3 or 4 tissues
Blow dryer (or let naturally dry)

A piece of polyester monofilament fibre mesh - 30 cm x 30 cm, (1 ft x 1 ft), 100 lines per inch mesh or " 100 mesh " (approx. 155 micron size), available from all screen printing/art shop supplies and from online ....

Note:
Don't use pantyhose material or silk scarves because the hole openings may not be the right (consistent) size to allow all the resin heads to fall through and keep most of the vegetative matter out ....the correct screen mesh with monofilament fibre strands is the most important aspect of any ice hash collection method - get the correct mesh, a small piece will last for years.

Wet or dry leaves, manicuring trim and/or lower fluffy "pop corn buds" ...at least two handfuls

How to make it:

Place the fresh or dry herbs in a sealed plastic bag in the freezer for at least an hour.

Put equal amounts of freezing cold water, ice cubes and herb (Put herbs in last)into an electric mixer, blend on low speed for 2 - 3 mins
or
Use a medium sized glass or plastic jar with a screw on lid and manually shake vigorously for several minutes.

(Note: "disappointing green slop" instead of "tan coloured wet sand" can occur with too much mixing and poor starting material)

Slowly pour the green liquid through the mesh screen into the glass bowl, the vegetative matter is caught on the mesh as the resin loaded water passes through the small mesh holes.

Put the glass bowl into the freezer section for about 45 minutes, tapping the bowl occasionally to allow the frozen resin heads to fall and collect on the bottom of the glass bowl as they are heavier than the leaf matter that floats to the top.

Very carefully ladle or siphon out, 95% of the liquid from the bowl, take care not to muddy up the water otherwise you'll get more contaminates in there ....then slowly teaspoon out the last water and use a tissue to suck up the remaining moisture.

Blow dry the remaining moist ice hash on medium for a few minutes , then collect it all together into a lump with your index finger. Or place the bowl in a warm place for a day to let the resin dry out.

The remaining sticky "grit" is mostly pure resin - Ice hashish!

Please note:
The results may vary with longer or shorter mixing times, slow or fast mixing speeds, using hand shaking, drills or electric mixers, wet or dry material, letting it sit longer or shorter, by using another smaller sized mesh to separate the resin from the water etc - read and experiment, this is just a very low cost method of ice hash extraction, there are many methods.

You can also repeat the whole process with fresh ice cubes to get a little extra ice hash as well.

With all things being equal ...this method will get you same amount of "ice hash" as any other more expensive ice hash extraction methods and "kits"

....the only thing different is that all the ice hash extracted will end up as a single grade lump ...not in 3 different grades like the bag kits ....I can live with that! especially that this method can be done with small amounts of harvest "trim" to start with which is ideal for the average small grower who gets only a shoe-box or two full of trim for each year.

This might be a good method for those who want to try out ice hash extraction before splashing out and buying a set of professionally made ice extraction bags.

Recently AF flat screened a small amount of high quality trim and got a small amount of lovely sticky resin that pressed into "hash" very easily and set that aside. AF further "worked" the remaining trim over and over the screen until there seemed to be no more resin passing through, just more broken up vegetative matter and worked that powder into a ball with a bit of spit and thumb pressure in AF's palm. The remaining trim was "shaken, not stirred" in the above ice method and returned a small amount of pure light coloured, sticky ice hash - definitely worthwhile!

it's nice with ice!

Bunzboys 10 steps, for the cheapest way to make hash.

High Everybody, I just wanna show the people who's harvest comes at a time when they can't afford other methods,(like myself) the cheap way that I make a little hash from the trimmings I'd ordinarily throw out. So here goes.

First pic is of the ingredients you'll need

1 - 32oz clean mayonnaise jar.

2 - The coldest water that you can get (I take cups filled w/ water & put
them in the freezer 30 minutes before I start)

3 - 1 coffee filter basket w/ a coffee filter in the basket

4 - Roughly 1/8 - 1/4 oz. trim (Believe me that's all that will fit in the jar)

5 - (Not shown - too stoned) - a tablespoon for spooning out the weed.



Step 2
Fill the jar about 2 inches from the top with the water (I always throw in 3-4 ice cubes - helps keep the water cold & adds a little abrasiveness to the trim.)
Step 3
Fill the remaining space in the jar with your trimmings.
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Step 4
Shake violently for 30 minutes.


Step 5
Let it Settle For 30 Minutes, roll & smoke a nice big spliff from the buds this trim was from to pass time.


Step 6
30 minutes Later the waters not as cloudy and you can see the trichromes on the bottom.


Step 7
Open the jar & use your tablespoon to remove all of the weed (this is what takes the time but GET IT ALL OUT). [FONT=verdana,arial,helvetica]

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Step 8
After weed is removed it may look like crap but boy will it bring you happiness.
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Step 9
Hold the coffee filter basket in one hand and slowly pour the water into the filter basket. [FONT=verdana,arial,helvetica]

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Step 10
Remove the remains from the coffee filter and leave untill dry. An inexpensive and easy way to get a nice couple of hits from some otherwise trash for yourself & a friend. After all that's what stoners are all about,sharing.

OK question:

Why in all the hash-making methods, is it necessary to use really cold water or ice water? Does this make trichs fall off easier or what?

yes, cold/ice water/snow helps seperate the trichomes from the leaf

Everyones been very helpfull cheers guys...